How to Use governorship in a Sentence

governorship

noun

• The state has done well during her governorship.
• For the first time since 1984, Democrats won the governorship, the Senate, and the House.
  — Glamour, 9 July 2024
• Once John stepped in front of him for the governorship, that was it.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Green won the governorship with nearly two-thirds of the vote.
  — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• Schwarzenegger won the governorship in the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• After trailing in the polls in 2018, DeWine staged a comeback to win the governorship.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 May 2021
• State of play: The race for the governorship remains fairly open.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
• The win will give Democrats control of the legislature and governorship for the first time in 26 years.
  — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2019
• Even Democrats had been worried about a blowout: the loss of a governorship, a senator and three House Democrats.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
• In a state as Republican as Texas, many would say you’re still a long shot to win the governorship.
  — Abigail Abrams, Time, 25 May 2018
• Winning the governorship by a 57 to 42 percent margin, Mr. du Pont got off to a bad start.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2021
• Democrats lost the Virginia governorship last week and nearly did the same in New Jersey.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 9 Nov. 2021
• Then the governorship changed hands, and the project was abandoned unfinished.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
• Graham was first elected to the governorship in 1978 and held office for eight years.
  — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2024
• But the fight over the Missouri governorship is looking like a real race.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2020
• Polis spent five terms in the House before winning the governorship in 2018.
  — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2023
• The crucial swing state will hold its primary on May 17, with key races for a U.S. Senate seat and the governorship.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• The crucial swing state will hold its primary on May 17, with key races for a U.S. Senate seat and the governorship.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2022
• Dems will continue to hold the governorship and the Senate.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2024
• In 2018, Republicans won the governorship by just four-tenths of a point and a U.S. Senate seat by two-tenths.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2019
• The office is next in line for the governorship, should the governor leave office for any reason.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• To take the governorship, Sanders will first have to win the Republican primary, and that may not be easy.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2021
• Taken as a whole, the Fusionists were too great in number and swamped the Democrats in the state legislature and the governorship.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2018
• She was first elected to the lieutenant governorship in 2018.
  — Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2024
• It’s the only state of those six in which Democrats control both chambers of the Legislature and the governorship.
  — oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2021
• His challengers for the governorship took note of the interview.
  — Hannah Knowles and Lateshia Beachum, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2022
• Judy Shelton got a taste of patent medicine of this sort when she was mobbed out of a Federal Reserve governorship.
  — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
• But if no Democrat runs and Newsom loses, the party will have fumbled away the governorship of the biggest state in the country.
  — Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2021
• Whichever party is not in the White House tends to perform well, giving Democrats optimism about their chances of flipping the governorship in November.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
• The conclusion of Cuomo's governorship was mired in scandal.
  — Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2025